Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2023
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension - Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore migration capability
Target availability: Q4 2023
Migrate MongoDB workloads to Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore using Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension in Azure Data Studio.
Public preview: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration
ExpressRoute customers can now seamlessly migrate.
Public preview: ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway
The ExpressRoute virtual network gateway facilitates both management and control plane connectivity to Virtual Machines and Private Endpoints over ExpressRoute.
General availability: ExpressRoute Direct and Circuit in different subscriptions
ExpressRoute Direct customers can now generate an authorization key for your ExpressRoute Direct resource and use it to make an ExpressRoute Circuit in a different subscription.
General availability: ExpressRoute as a Trusted Service
ExpressRoute customers can now store MACSec secrets in an Azure KeyVault.
Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure
Simplify how you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from cloud to edge with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.
MQTT broker feature, PubSub capabilities now available for Azure Event Grid
Bi-directional communication and flexible consumption patterns - at scale.
Introducing New Capabilities in Microsoft Dev Box
Target availability: Q4 2023
Microsoft Dev Box is introducing new capabilities to support greater customization and simplify Dev Box setup for development teams.
Public preview: 3rd party support for Arm solutions in Azure Marketplace
Partners can now publish solutions built for Arm-based architecture to the Azure Marketplace. Enabling has broader support for ARM64 for all customers and partners in Azure.
Introducing New Capabilities in Azure Deployment Environments
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Deployment Environments is adding new capabilities to deliver an end-to-end developer experience, broader infrastructure-as-code (IaC) template support, and the ability to control costs by configuring auto-delete schedules.
Public preview: VM Hibernation
VMs can now be put into a hibernate state in which you don't pay for any VM usage, while the VM state can be saved and be restored at a later time.
Public preview: Azure VMSS Zonal Expansion
Zonal expansion for VMs and VM Scale Sets empowers users to smoothly transition their regionally configured VMs or VM scale sets into a zonal configuration across Azure availability zones, resulting an increased availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) from 99.95% to 99.99%.
GA: Azure Boost
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Boost is one of Microsoft Azure’s latest and most significant infrastructure innovations, enabling greater network and storage performance at scale, improves security, and reduced servicing impact.
Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6
Azure introduces the latest AMD-based VMs in public preview for the D, E, and F series VMs, built on the 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Genoa) CPU.
Experiment templates now available in Azure Chaos Studio
Create and customize an experiment from a template. Chaos Studio currently supports AAD Outage and Availability Zone Down scenarios.
General availability: Start and stop load (Azure Load Testing) faults in Azure Chaos Studio
Add a previously created load test (from Azure Load Testing) to your chaos experiment. Choose when exactly in your chaos experiment you would like to start and stop load.
GA: Azure Functions supports .NET 8 in the isolated worker model
Azure Functions now supports .NET 8, using the isolated worker model.
General Availability: Ubuntu Server to Ubuntu Pro in-place upgrade now available
Upgrade from Ubuntu Server (16.04 or higher) to Ubuntu Pro on your existing Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) without redeployment or downtime.
Public Preview: Support for GraphQL APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway
Target availability: Q4 2023
Customers now have the power to expose GraphQL APIs through Azure API Management's self-hosted gateway.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent JSON log collection
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Monitoring Agent team has released for public preview JSON log collection. New collection types enable customers to migrate from other competing data collection services to Azure Monitor.
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